Alan Grayson v. Sarah Palin: No contest

By GottaLaff

Alan Grayson is "colorful", but what is currently on his site.. even more so: (bolding mine)

On Friday night, Sarah Palin came to Orlando, and attacked Rep. Alan Grayson. This is what she said:

"[W]hat can you say about Alan Grayson? Piper is with me tonight, so I won't say anything about Alan Grayson that can't be said around children. [...] But thank you, Florida, for allowing candidates in a contested primary to duke it out over ideas and principles and values, all with the same goal, and that is unseating those who have such a disconnect from the people of America. That's what the goal is here in this race against Alan Grayson..."

Palin, the former half-term Governor, current-nothing and future-even-less, charmed the all-Republican audience with her folksy folksiness and her homespun homespunnery. Atypically, Palin was wearing clothes that she had paid for herself. At the end of the event, she shared her recipe for mooseface pie.

In response to Palin's attack on Rep Grayson, Grayson actually complimented Palin. Grayson praised Palin for having a hand large enough to fit Grayson's entire name on it. [...] Grayson added that Palin deserved credit for getting through the entire hour-long program without quitting. Grayson also said that Palin really had mastered Palin's imitation of Tina Fey imitating Palin. [...]

Grayson said that the Alaskan chillbilly was welcome to return to Central Florida anytime, as long as she brings lots of money with her, and spends it. "I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them," Grayson added [...]

Over the top, to be sure, but come on, we're all thinking it. Whether it should come from a U.S. representative is debatable (I hear both cheers and jeers for his zingers, mostly cheers).

I concede, taking the high road is preferable, but the immature side of me is saying ogodthisisfun.

VIDEO: Rep. Alan Grayson Schools Republican Congressman in Debate

By GottaLaff

"Enough is enough" indeed. Go Rep. Grayson! He made the Rushpublic side of the aisle look like the ineptitudees that they are:



H/t: Hippie_Cyndi

Biden zingers

By GottaLaff

Suh-nap!

• “Sarah Palin says, 'You know, I was in second grade when Joe Biden was elected to the United States Senate at age 29,’” he said this afternoon. “That’s true, but she was in sixth grade the last time John had a new idea.”

• “You know, the hardest part, I’ve been the youngest everything for so much of my life,” Biden said. “Now I’m the old guy in the campaign. Thank God John McCain’s around.”

  “The second oldest,” a local man interrupted.
  
  “He’s still a few years older than I am,” Biden answered.

• This is the homogenized election, man. Same thing’s going on in my town of Wilmington, Delaware, [as are] going on in Liberty. … We’ve been dug into a very, very deep hole. Literally. No matter whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, no matter what your political persuasion. It’s virtually impossible to say things are better off today than they were eight years ago.”

This is the Joe we've been waiting for.

Obama Zings McCain On The "Old Boys Network"

This one made Jeff happy.

Obama: John McCain is “cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history.”

By GottaLaff

I'm stepping out for awhile, but this might get you revved up for what's coming in the next few weeks:

In a shift from the apolitical tone the presidential candidates took during Hurricane Gustav, Barack Obama did not temper his rhetoric Saturday, as his spokesman accused John McCain of “cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history.”

“John McCain wants to have a debate about national security let’s have that debate. I warned that going into Iraq would distract us from Afghanistan. John McCain cheer-leaded for it. John McCain was wrong and I was right,” Obama told a screaming New Hampshire crowd.

“The McCain-Palin ticket, they don’t want to debate the Obama-Biden ticket on issues because they are running on eight more years of what we’ve just seen. And they know it,” Obama said. “As a consequence what they’re going to spend the next seven, eight weeks doing is trying to distract you.

“They’re going to talk about pigs and they’re going to talk about lipstick, they’re going to talk about Paris Hilton, they’re going to talk about Britney Spears. They will try to distort my record and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats intend to do.” [...]

The McCain campaign criticized Obama for showing “zero restraint” given the storm and said “today’s attacks mark a new low from Barack Obama.”

The Obama camp’s response was even tougher. “We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office his is seeking.”

You wanted tough? You got tough.